Nuclear+Proliferation

Nuclear Proliferation




 * Essential Questions: **
 * **Who determines who gets to have WMD’s and who doesn't get to have them?**
 * **Nuclear deterrents: Do the ends justify the means?**
 * **Is it possible to un-invent any object deemed too dangerous to exist?**
 * **Is the UN too weak? Too powerful?**
 * **What options are available to non-aligned countries to defend themselves from superpowers? **





Questions on Global Nuclear Weapons Stockpile: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ci0xAx-1o2VBXz8QG_J2K8PuCtejwLHann3S_Kj1AfQ/edit

Notes on Choices Video Clips: Nuclear Weapons:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZigNd2OiirbGcB5lP0VYfQidtvsOxz7opTbhYvfg0zc/edit



NUKEMAP Bombing Results: When I detonated the largest USSR bomb ever designed, the "Tsar Bomba" (100 Mt), in an airburst over Boston, I would have engulfed all of Boston and the local Boston area in the fireball radius of the bomb. Everything outside of the fireball radius for 37.1 km was caught in the Airblast radius that tore almost every building down and killed thousands with a 5 psi air wave. Finally, everything for 73.6 km from Ground Zero was caught in the Thermal Radiation Radius, which caused third-degree burns to all within it. According to the same detonation over New York, the Boston detonation could have killed around 3-5 million people.

Nuclear Proliferation Key Terms: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1byA1RmFUk9Q19eBVKRm3Yr3XkyU8AWI9TAXLsNcvCJg/edit